Includes bibliographical references (p. 1297-1319) and index

The fierce spirit of resistance -- Congress asserts the rights of Americans -- The war begins -- Bunker's Hill -- The battle for Boston -- The Canadian campaigns -- "A great empire and little minds" -- The great declaration -- The loyalists -- The struggle for democracy at home -- The battle for New York -- "Bagging the fox" -- The Burgoyne Campaign -- Howe invades Pennsylvania -- France comes in -- England seeks reconciliation -- The patriots seize the initiative in the middle states -- Spies, treason and mutiny -- The home front in the war -- Health, hospitals and medicine -- Prisons and escapes -- Songs and ballads of the revolution -- Sea battles and naval raids -- Privateering -- American diplomats on the vaunted scene of Europe -- War out of Niagara -- The conquest of the old northwest -- The Redcoats carry the war to the south -- The second campaign to conquer the south -- The turn of the tide -- Virginia -- Yorktown : Washington's vindication -- Winning the peace -- Closing scenes

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